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Shaun102
Member Since: 18 Feb 2015
Location: Hertford
Posts: 19
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Hi guys/gals,
I looked at a Disco 3 (56) today but on checking the windscreen found the vin number missing, there is a black plate under the bonnet with a vin on it that tallys with my autotrader check but I could not find another vin no, so where should I be checking for it and why would the windscreen one be missing?
Thanks
Shaun
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 6th Aug 2017 9:41 pm |
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BAZ8046
Member Since: 26 Feb 2010
Location: Chatham
Posts: 278
 
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I would be very suspicious if the windscreen vin is missing.
The black vin stickers are easily forged.
It should also be stamped in the chassis on the offside rail just at the front of the drivers door.
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| 6th Aug 2017 9:50 pm |
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Washwipe
Member Since: 19 Apr 2013
Location: Bucks Oxon Herts Border
Posts: 3169
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Could have had a windscreen replaced at some point and they've fitted the wrong screen, there are two, one with the vin along the bottom of the screen and the other on the side of the screen.
Was asked where my vin was when I had a screen replaced to ensure they brought the correct screen.
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| 6th Aug 2017 10:19 pm |
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ClassikFan
Member Since: 02 Nov 2016
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1026
 
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A parking slip has fallen between the the windscreen and the internal vin so I can't see mine and so far haven't managed to extract offending ticket.
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| 7th Aug 2017 11:09 am |
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Markland
Member Since: 16 May 2015
Location: 80085 Pebkac Terrace
Posts: 163
 
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Another VIN Sticker is in the drivers door... TDV6MY07-automatic-LHD-noDPF-iidbt-ffrrMod
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| 7th Aug 2017 12:27 pm |
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Shaun102
Member Since: 18 Feb 2015
Location: Hertford
Posts: 19
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Thanks guys
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| 8th Aug 2017 10:43 am |
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Toni
Member Since: 26 Oct 2018
Location: Maidstone kent
Posts: 36
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Hi wondered if any one knows a better way round this i had a front crash and bent the slam panel and brought one from the breakers but now taking my car for MOT it failed on that and was told only land rover can do it and it will be over 2 months and going to cost £165 😤😤and i cant be without car for that long 😔
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| 5th Nov 2019 7:14 pm |
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Lee Trinder
Member Since: 12 Aug 2018
Location: Henley in arden
Posts: 515
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Markland wrote:Another VIN Sticker is in the drivers door...
Hi, I have no vin sticker in my drivers door, just windscreen and under bonnet
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| 5th Nov 2019 7:49 pm |
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Toni
Member Since: 26 Oct 2018
Location: Maidstone kent
Posts: 36
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I dont have the ones on the door just the one on the screen and the one on the bonnet its not their because i had to put a new front slam panel
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| 5th Nov 2019 10:55 pm |
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M3bobby
Member Since: 21 May 2018
Location: Sleaford, LINCS.
Posts: 857
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Toni wrote:Hi wondered if any one knows a better way round this i had a front crash and bent the slam panel and brought one from the breakers but now taking my car for MOT it failed on that and was told only land rover can do it and it will be over 2 months and going to cost £165 😤😤and i cant be without car for that long 😔
Are you saying it failed because it wasn’t displaying a VIN? The only VIN that counts in on the right chassis beam adjacent to the driver door, and if that’s been removed/defaced then there’s a serious issue. 012MY RRS 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography (Current)
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| 6th Nov 2019 5:37 pm |
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Toni
Member Since: 26 Oct 2018
Location: Maidstone kent
Posts: 36
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Yes i have the one on front windscreen jt doesn't have one on the door but it failed because i changed the front slam panel forgot to remove the sticker and he fail he said it would pass if it wasn't their and if its diferente from the windscreen guy is just a N***
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| 7th Nov 2019 10:10 am |
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M3bobby
Member Since: 21 May 2018
Location: Sleaford, LINCS.
Posts: 857
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I’d just remove it then, that sticker is just a sticker, it has a VIN on it but I don’t see why it has to be your VIN. The only VIN that counts is the one on the Chassis. My car has ECUs with other VINs registered to them but it doesn’t fail an MOT.
The MOT rules state:
a. VIN missing or cannot be found - MAJOR
b. VIN incomplete, illegible or obviously falsified - MAJOR
So remove that sticker, clean the vin on the chassis, paint a big red rectangle around it if you have to and then show him where it is.
If he still won’t pass it, go else where or raise a complaint to DVLA. 012MY RRS 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography (Current)
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| 7th Nov 2019 11:05 am |
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